The effects of immigration are reasonably well understood in developed countries, but they are far more poorly … studying the effects of immigration to Brazil during the Age of Mass Migration on its agricultural sector in 1920. This context … benefits from the widely recognized value of historical perspective in studies of the effects of immigration. But unlike …

To spur entrepreneurship and economic growth, an increasing number of countries have introduced immigration policies … this immigration policy increased the likelihood that U.S.-based immigrants have a start-up in Canada by 69%. Our results … communities in the origin location. Overall, our study unveils the importance of immigration policies in determining founding …

passes validity tests and has reasonably strong power. Second, we provide estimates of the impact of immigration on the … of natives in response to immigrants. Using these estimates, we calculate that immigration, thanks to native …

On February 5, 1917, the United States passed the Immigration Act of 1917, which included a test for all migrants … 'skill-based' immigration policy in an attempt to limit migration. We assess whether the Immigration Act had any measurable … impacts on immigration to the U.S. Using a differences-in-differences approach and digitized data from Ellis Island ship …

This paper shows that the ancestry composition shaped by century-long immigration to the US can explain the current … the co-ethnic networks formed by immigration have a positive causal impact on global supply chain relationships between …